President hits the road to sell ambitious economic plans; New CNN Poll: Sharp divisions on vaccines, return to public life; Bipartisan police reform group pledges to meet ‘until we get this done’; Rudy Giuliani speaks for first time since raid

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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President faces bipartisan pushback over new economic plans; Manchin joins GOP in raising concerns about cost of plans; Biden’s infrastructure, families plans would cost nearly $4T; Biden’s first 100 days show biggest market gains since JFK; Fed Chair: Economy will fully recover when the pandemic is over; New CNN Poll: 44% of Republicans VS. 8% of Democrats will not try to get a vaccine; New CNN Poll: 26% of Americans won’t try to get vaccinated; George Floyd, Eric Garner family members meet with senators; Floyd family attorney says senators heard from “families who blood will be on the legislation”; Michael Cohen: Donald Trump “is not happy” about evidence & docs seized in Giuliani raid; Biden: “I give you my word”, I was not aware of Giuliani raid; Giuliani’s Attorney: Feds subpoenaed Giuliani’s assistant to appear before grand jury next month; Invisible incident making diplomats & others sick prompt investigations; Biden asks congress to step up on gun control To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	President Biden already hitting some bumps in the road isn't that what he's
0:05.3	trying to fix? The lead starts right now. Today he's taking his multi trillion
0:11.8	dollar proposal to the American people with promises of transforming the
0:15.5	economy and lifting millions out of poverty but there is already some pushback
0:19.3	and very little wiggle room in the 50-50 Senate. Let me out fresh new CNN polls
0:26.0	showing how eager Americans are to get vaccinated and get back to normal. Plus a
0:30.8	mystery attack with an alleged invisible energy wave people falling ill
0:36.2	near the White House. Who might be behind it that's coming up?
0:44.2	Welcome to the lead-on Jake Tapper and we start today with our politics
0:48.2	lead and on his 100th day in office President Biden hitting the road to
0:52.3	promote his ambitious and quite expensive new economic plans. Any moment he's
0:56.8	landing in Gwinnett County, Georgia, suburban Atlanta with the first lady
1:00.8	after meeting with former President Jimmy Carter. The Biden's will then hold a
1:04.4	rally aimed at selling the American people on his nearly four trillion dollars
1:10.0	worth of new proposals. This is part of what the White House is calling the
1:14.1	getting America back on track tour. Rallying public support will be crucial for
1:18.9	the White House given that today just hours after his first address to a
1:22.7	joint session of Congress last night. Mr. Biden is already facing pushback not
1:26.8	just from Republicans but also from members of his own party. CNN's Caitlin
1:31.3	Collins is live for us in Duluth, Georgia and Caitlin what are we expecting to
1:35.2	hear from President Biden at this rally this evening? Well Jake first I should
1:41.7	say the White House is not surprised by the pushback they are getting from
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